These last months of the year are customarily a time for reflection. This is certainly true at AFS, as we work to close out the 2021 annual meeting, and shift to preparing for next year. In that spirit, we’ve compared notes, and offer these preliminary observations about our experiments of the past year.
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“Re-Centering the Periphery” calls us to focus on the intersections of what is marginalized and centralized both in our field and in the larger public debates about national identities in 2022.
Submit your ballot by December 15 for Executive Board and Nominating Committee. Voting began on Thursday, November 11, and this year, it ends December 15, 2021, so you can expect to learn the results before the new year. For this election cycle,
It’s AFS Election Season! Submit Your Ballot by December 15 for Executive Board and Nominating Committee Voting begins on Thursday, November 11, and this year, it ends December 15, 2021, so you can expect to learn the results before the new year.
The AFS Fellows are presenting an online salon on Friday, December 3, 12:00–1:30 pm EST for anyone interested in joining in dialogue concerning the issues raised in the 2021 AFS Fellows Utley Panel, "Heritage, Tourism, Community: A Conversation with Owe Ronström."
Join us for a virtual Candidates’ Forum on November 11, 2021, 1:00 PM EST, to hear the candidates for AFS Executive Board and Nominating Committee speak to current concerns in conversation with the current Nominating Committee. Register to attend the live session,
The editors of the JAF just announced that “African American Expressive Culture, Protest, Imagination, and Dreams of Blackness,” the Fall 2021 special issue of JAF: A Global Quarterly (Journal of American Folklore, v. 134, no. 534) is now available online and will arrive in mailboxes soon.
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 AFS prizes who were named at the Opening Ceremony of the 2021 AFS Annual Meeting: Américo Paredes Prize: Diana N’Diaye (Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage) Awarded by the AFS
We’re hosting a virtual open house at 7:00 pm EDT Sunday, October 17, to answer questions about the Annual Meeting Hub. Drop in to take a tour of the meeting platform, learn about login, and ask any questions you might have. Register
The Fellows and the Public Programs Section of the American Folklore Society are co-sponsoring these Heritage Studies and Folkloristics sessions that will explore a number of topics of interest and relevance to public folklorists. They include scholars and practitioners who have